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Updated: May 12, 2025
"Oh, she just meant girls will be girls, that's all!" replied Grandma; "why, mercy! I know all about that. I don't feel like nothin' much more than a girl myself, half the time; and we all have to have our experiences, to be sure. They ain't nobody else can wear 'em for us, but, dear me! the Lord ain't going to let our experiences hurt us; they're for our betterin'."
Inside of a fortnight, part by thinkin' 'tis hard work still for me to think part by dreamin', I'd a-worried it all out. I was betterin' fast by that. Soon as I was well enough to be discharged, I worked my passage home in a grain ship, the Druid, o' Liverpool. I was reckonin' all the way back that Na'mi'd be main glad to see me agen. But now I s'pose she won't." "It'll come nigh to killin' her."
At that Gwendolyn sat up, shook back her hair, and raised a startled face to the row of toys in the glass-fronted case. Murdering the King's English! Had he dared to harm her soldier with the scarlet coat? "I was urgin' your betterin', too, Miss Royle," reminded Thomas, gently. "I says to Jane, I says " The soldier was in his place, safe. Relieved, Gwendolyn straightened out once more on her back.
So I'm much beholden to your missus, and so's Charley, I'm sure; though he's ta'en a turn to betterin' sin' he came out here to be nursed. 'I'm a deal better, said Kinraid; 'a'most ready for t' press-gang to give chase to again. 'But folk say they're gone off this coast for one while, added Daniel. 'They're gone down towards Hull, as I've been told, said Kinraid.
"But I'm betterin'. Food's a blessin', however ye come by it." On a sudden, as she read his thought, the very tokens of health in his face accused her . . . and, a moment since, she had been merely glad to note them. "Clothes too, ye'll say? I don't set store by clothes, meself; but a fine han'some quean they make of ye. That's a mare, too!
So I'm much beholden to your missus, and so's Charley, I'm sure; though he's ta'en a turn to betterin' sin' he came out here to be nursed. 'I'm a deal better, said Kinraid; 'a'most ready for t' press-gang to give chase to again. 'But folk say they're gone off this coast for one while, added Daniel. 'They're gone down towards Hull, as I've been told, said Kinraid.
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